Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Jan Bondeson
yhteensä 40 hakutulosta
Blood on the Snow
The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time …
Animal Freaks
Ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom.
The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History
In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom. Throughout he …
A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities
Before museums there were cabinets of medical curiosities: a dried mermaid might sit next to a giant's shinbone; the skeletons of conjoined twins beside an Egyptian mummy. In this …
Buried Alive
Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales—just think of The Premature Burial—may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not …
Cat Orchestra and the Elephant Butler
Presents tales from across the folklore of the animal kingdom: a learned pig more admired than Sir Isaac Newton by the English public, an elephant that Lord Byron wanted to employ …
Blood on the Snow
The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time …
Ripper of Waterloo Road
WHEN JACK THE RIPPER first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his crimes were as ghastly as those committed by Eliza Grimwood's murderer fifty years …
Amazing Dogs
In the 1750s, the Learned English Dog was a sensation in London: this spelling and calculating border collie was even thought to be a reincarnation of Pythagoras. The acting …
The London Monster
The truth behind the man who terrorized women on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Between 1788 and 1790 a series of street assaults on women were perpetrated by a …
Amazing Dogs
Dogs have a cherished role as close companions, and their sometimes startling abilities have been a never-ending source of fascination for their observers and friends through the …